Bangalore Trip... A memorable weekend
Oct 15-16 : Bangalore
It all started off in a spark when me and Arun were thinking of ways to watch the recent blockbuster and asin-starrer "Ghajini". "Why not travel to B'lore for a weekend and watch it with our friends there?" - "Ok Done" was the immediate consensus between a few of us. So we started on 14th evening by a special train to Bangalore to spend the weekend.
We had nice journey in the train and we were discussing some interesting aspects where Anbu pretended to give gyan to us on things which were supposedly based on his experience. But he only managed to bore us and we crawled to our berths when the night was young.
At Bangalore, We had a warm welcome there at the station with Hemanth,PSV, Baghu and Gokulnath coming to receive us.
That afternoon, we had lunch at "Sahib Sindh Sultan" an authentic Indian hotel with a flamboyant ambience. We had Mohan Kumar and Arunachalam joining for lunch here and it was a great Lunch together as a big group.
It was 3:45PM by the time we finished Lunch and it was time for our much awaited movie show -- Gajini at PVR.
The movie was a good thriller and is definitely of worth-watching calibre. But the inexperience of the director was evident at many a place where he tried to fargo logic for want of typical cinematic masala. Thats typically what contemporary directors do and thats fine with most of today's cine goers. So a one-line review of the movie - Good, Asin-awesome and a couple of nice songs. So purpose solved :-)
After the movie we roamed about The Forum doing nothing more than window shopping and the 'obvious' thing at a happening place in the city. We had some good south-indian dinner and got back to Hemanth's house.
Now is the interesting part. We started to play the 'Business game' (one of our favourite board-games) with our hosts there. We divided ourself into three groups such that each team had a Hyderabadi and a B'lorean in it. Baghu stealed the show obviously for wrong reasons ! He took ages to cast the dice for each round and proved a huge bottleneck in the otherwise 'rapid' game. Talking strategies (aka non-sense in Business game) , calculating the positions, and negotiating for unpreferable deals, Baghu dragged the game so much that even our "Saadhuest" (Composed) JP cannot tolerate his awkward game. Finally the game ended where me+Gokul won and Raghu+Hemanth came second. Our Strategy King Baghu lost badly inspite of his partner JP's nice play :-)
We captured the rare moment of Baghu casting his dice and here is it.
The next day (Sunday) we decide to go to Indian Institute of Science (IISc) where our friend SriRaghavendra is studying and we reached there at about 2PM after a nice Lunch at Sri Krishna Cafe. IISc was really a cool and green place with vast green areas, trees, pathways and natural beauty. It looked like a "raajaangam" (Kingdom) in itself. We had photo sessions there with our Raghavendra and spent some 1 hour in the college.
Couple of snaps which we took there
We went to MG Road and Brigade road then, had some exotic icecreams at a parlour and returned back to Hemanth's house to give time to JP and Arun to complete their Yoga duties for the day.
We started back to Hyderabad in a Volvo bus, before which Anbu did not miss to call on his long time friend, who also came to the bus station to wish him (and us also) happy journey. It indeed turned out to be happy journey and we reached our place safely before 9am.
Nice time to remember for life, indeed.
It all started off in a spark when me and Arun were thinking of ways to watch the recent blockbuster and asin-starrer "Ghajini". "Why not travel to B'lore for a weekend and watch it with our friends there?" - "Ok Done" was the immediate consensus between a few of us. So we started on 14th evening by a special train to Bangalore to spend the weekend.
We had nice journey in the train and we were discussing some interesting aspects where Anbu pretended to give gyan to us on things which were supposedly based on his experience. But he only managed to bore us and we crawled to our berths when the night was young.
At Bangalore, We had a warm welcome there at the station with Hemanth,PSV, Baghu and Gokulnath coming to receive us.
That afternoon, we had lunch at "Sahib Sindh Sultan" an authentic Indian hotel with a flamboyant ambience. We had Mohan Kumar and Arunachalam joining for lunch here and it was a great Lunch together as a big group.
It was 3:45PM by the time we finished Lunch and it was time for our much awaited movie show -- Gajini at PVR.
The movie was a good thriller and is definitely of worth-watching calibre. But the inexperience of the director was evident at many a place where he tried to fargo logic for want of typical cinematic masala. Thats typically what contemporary directors do and thats fine with most of today's cine goers. So a one-line review of the movie - Good, Asin-awesome and a couple of nice songs. So purpose solved :-)
After the movie we roamed about The Forum doing nothing more than window shopping and the 'obvious' thing at a happening place in the city. We had some good south-indian dinner and got back to Hemanth's house.
Now is the interesting part. We started to play the 'Business game' (one of our favourite board-games) with our hosts there. We divided ourself into three groups such that each team had a Hyderabadi and a B'lorean in it. Baghu stealed the show obviously for wrong reasons ! He took ages to cast the dice for each round and proved a huge bottleneck in the otherwise 'rapid' game. Talking strategies (aka non-sense in Business game) , calculating the positions, and negotiating for unpreferable deals, Baghu dragged the game so much that even our "Saadhuest" (Composed) JP cannot tolerate his awkward game. Finally the game ended where me+Gokul won and Raghu+Hemanth came second. Our Strategy King Baghu lost badly inspite of his partner JP's nice play :-)
We captured the rare moment of Baghu casting his dice and here is it.
The next day (Sunday) we decide to go to Indian Institute of Science (IISc) where our friend SriRaghavendra is studying and we reached there at about 2PM after a nice Lunch at Sri Krishna Cafe. IISc was really a cool and green place with vast green areas, trees, pathways and natural beauty. It looked like a "raajaangam" (Kingdom) in itself. We had photo sessions there with our Raghavendra and spent some 1 hour in the college.
Couple of snaps which we took there
We went to MG Road and Brigade road then, had some exotic icecreams at a parlour and returned back to Hemanth's house to give time to JP and Arun to complete their Yoga duties for the day.
We started back to Hyderabad in a Volvo bus, before which Anbu did not miss to call on his long time friend, who also came to the bus station to wish him (and us also) happy journey. It indeed turned out to be happy journey and we reached our place safely before 9am.
Nice time to remember for life, indeed.
Labels: Travelogue
posted by Naresh Chandrasekaran at
5:56 AM
2 Comments:
Nice trip report, Naresh! We should get our Prasads theater to screen such Tamil movies right here in hyd.
Let's keep the blog community growing :)
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Kals, at 6:31 AM
Bangalore, often termed to be the Silicon Valley, holds a major chunk of the responsibility of transforming India into an economy to reckon with that it is now and a prospective superpower in the near future. The excellent weather, the warmth of the people, and the beauty of nature have always put Bangalore on the high ranks in a travelers’ book. In the past decade or so Bangalore has become the IT capital of India and immediately the city saw a phenomenal spurt in its tourism sector. Bangalore was no longer a leisure traveler’s delight, but the city became a major financial hub. Soon delegates from all over the world had to visit the city. In keeping with the taste and travel inclination of the international delegates and business travelers a number of world class luxury and business hotels in Bangalore were opened. Big names in the hospitality industry like the ITC Welcom Group, the Taj Hotels etc have multiple hotels in Bangalore. Only recently Taj opened its 5th property in this beautiful south Indian city. A few months back ITC Welcom Group also opened its 2nd property in Bangalore. The hospitality industry is also opening budget hotels in Bangalore that have a fine mix of business and luxury in a flexible budget.
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